[meteorite-list] Stones From The Stars: The Unsolved Mysteries ofMeteorites

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello Darren and list,

I think it is a good read, and as you noted, it is (usually) one of the 
cheaper meteorite books.  The following might help you decide if the book 
may be of interest to you.

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
www.meteoritearticles.com


"Stones From The Stars: The Unsolved Mysteries of Meteorites " by Thedore R. 
LeMaire.  Hardcover, 185 pgs, (c)  February 1980, Theodore Rogers LeMaire.

Chapters include: 1. Lost City, Oklahoma, 2. The Canadian Fireball 
Procession of 1913, 3. Cosmic Timetables, 4.  Sociable Stones and Sky Irons, 
5. Drop Zones, 6. Iron Alley, 7. Oregon's Phantom Meteorite, 8. The Kansas 
Collection, 9. The Hermit Kings, 10. Explosion Craters, 11. A Cosmic 
Geometry, 12. Outlaw Asteroids, Conclusion: The Siberian Fix, Bibliography, 
Index.

Photos include: Norton 2000lb+ Meteorite Main Mass, Kirin City 3900lb. 
Meteorite (aka Jilin), The Willamette Meteorite, Hunting for the Port Oxford 
Meteorite, Ahnighnito in Greenland, Moving Ahnighnito,  The Hoba West 
Meteorite, Barringer (or Meteor) Crater, Henbury Crater, and more.

>From Dust jacket: "In the 18th century, French scientists denied that stones 
could possibly fall from the sky. Yet modern science still tries to ignore 
meteorites baffling behavior.  They defy the laws of physics by slowing 
down, speeding up, even making 180 degree course changes,  and instead of 
landing randomly about the globe they favor certain drop zones.  Appalachia, 
Kansas, and the narrow "Iron alley" of America's West Coast have received 
repeated bombardments over the centuries, and other regions none at all. For 
nearly five years. T.R. LemMaire re-examined astronomical journals, searched 
explorers accounts, and correlated the scientific literature on meteors to 
reveal a plethora of startling anomalies.  Why do "Sociable Stone" 
meteorites usually fall near human habitation, while "Shy Irons" decent in 
remote desert regions?.  when modern experts find it hard to spot authentic 
meteorites, how did the world's "primitive" cultures so easily identify 
"stones from heave that fell centuries before? Still more puzzling are the 
precise geometries that meteorite sites reveal impact craters here and on 
the moon are not always round, as ballistic theory might predict, but often 
square or hexagonal! On a map, craters often align themselves along exact 
rectangles stretching hundred, even thousands of miles.  And "natural" 
formations like Hudson Bay are now suspected to be vast star-wounds formed 
millions of years ago. As speculative and adventurous as Chariots of the 
Gods?, as richly documented as The Bermuda Triangle, STONES FROM THE STARS 
is a riveting work of fact that serves up dozens of genuine cosmic mysteries 
- and one single, unthinkable conclusion."